Clones In Tha Hood
John Boyega has been cast in another “homies fight for their turf” sci-fi movie, the direct to Netflix They Cloned Tyrone.
Tyrone will mark the directorial debut of Juel Taylor who, after spending some time helping out on movie sets, just got his first writing credit for Creed II.
Taylor must be some talented guy, yeah?
The synopsis sounds very similar to Boyega’s breakout role in Attack The Block:
Likened to “Friday–meets-Get Out,” the film is described as a pulpy, sci-fi mystery caper, in which an unlikely trio investigates a series of eerie events, alerting them to a nefarious conspiracy lurking directly beneath their hood.
“An unlikely trio”, huh? Do you mean… nevermind, it’s Netflix movie.
A couple of things:
First, That Title Is… Wew
“Tyrone” is who racists and edgelords meme about when they meme about African-American males.
That’s exclusively the name they use, so calling the movie They Cloned Tyrone is pretty edgy in and of itself — smart to lean into it.
Maybe it’s intentional so they can point to the literally hundreds of racist memes out there specifically referencing the royal Tyrone and say “you have to see the movie now or you are with the racists.”
At the very least, the title alone will launch one-thousand mommy blog posts.
Also smart.
Second, They Used You, Johnny!
Lucasfilm used all of you.
They made you the most embarrassing of the poorly-written tokens in their brave new Star Wars, essentially a Martin In Space.
They promised you fame and fortune beyond your wildest dreams — duh, it’s Star Wars — and then, as soon as you were done, the industry put right back in the same exact movie they plucked you from in the first place!
Where are the big roles from Disney?
Where are the big roles from any studio?
Pacific Rim II? That’s it?
Ask your agent, brother! Then again, your agent isn’t looking out for you.
Why would he?
There are thousands of young black actors around willing to do anything to get roles but there is only one Disney, there is only one faucet.
